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Stamford, Connecticut, 16,339 students in 21 schools

Stamford School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Stamford, measured against Stamford's own big snow morning of 5.6 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Stamford close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Stamford.
The Stamford playbook

How Stamford calls a snow day

When the call comes

Every effort to announce closings/delays by 5:15 am.

“Every effort is made to announce closings/delays by 5:15 am and early dismissals by 9 am.”
Source

How families hear

By the district app, the district website and social media.

“Closings, delays, and early dismissals will also be shared with local media, posted on the District and individual school websites, and shared via SPS Social Media.”
Family Guide (Closings and Delays section)

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Davenport Ridge 9 AM to 3:30 PM 11 AM 1:20 PM”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Added to the end of the school year.

“**ANY INCLEMENT WEATHER DAYS WILL BE ADDED TO THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR**”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The BOE authorizes the Superintendent to enact school closings and delays in case of hazardous weather or other emergencies.”
Board policy

Read from Stamford’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is stamfordpublicschools.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Stamford’s snow record

29inches of snow a winter
2.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.8with 4 in or more
5.6 ina big snow morning in Stamford: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 61% of the 166 Connecticut districts with a station record.

0.7Nov
4.6Dec
7.4Jan
10.3Feb
5.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11.9 in on February 23, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 50.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.3 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Connecticut rule

How Connecticut counts a lost day

Connecticut requires at least 180 days and 900 hours of actual school work, counting no more than 7 hours a day.

The Connecticut rules in the agency’s own words, and every Connecticut district

Next door

Districts near Stamford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Darien School DistrictDarien29 in1.82
Greenwich School DistrictGreenwich27.6 in1.65
New Canaan School DistrictNew Canaan31.8 in1.4
Norwalk School DistrictNorwalk29 in1.8
Westport School DistrictWestport29 in1.85
Wilton School DistrictWilton31.8 in1.4
The schools

21 schools

Every school in Stamford follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Westhill High School
  • Stamford High School
  • The Academy of Information Technology & Engineering

Middle

  • Rippowam Middle School
  • Turn of River School
  • Scofield Middle School
  • Dolan School
  • Cloonan School

Elementary

  • Strawberry Hill an ext. of Rogers International
  • Rogers International School
  • Davenport Ridge School
  • Julia A. Stark School
  • Stillmeadow School
  • Hart School
  • Springdale School
  • Toquam Magnet School
  • Roxbury School
  • Newfield School
  • Westover School
  • Northeast School
  • K. T. Murphy School
Questions

Stamford snow day questions

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More winter

More for Connecticut snow days

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.